Southern Farmers And Their Stories
Subtitle: Memory And Meaning in Oral History (New Directions in Southern History)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: September 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780813124094
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Oral history; Social History; United States - 20th Century; History: American; Historiography; History; History - U.S.; Southern States; Central Southern states; Interviews; United States - State & Local - South; Farmers; 20th century; Farm life
First sentence: Ruth Hatchette McBrayer operated a peach orchard in South Carolina for nearly forty years, but the white landowner gave up peach farming in the mid-1980s.
Description: "In Southern Farmers and Their Stories, Melissa Walker explores the ways in which a diverse array of farmers remember and recount the past. The book tells the story of the modernization of the South in the voices of those most affected by the decline of traditional ways of life and work. Walker analyzes the recurring patterns in their narratives of change and loss, filling in gaps left by more conventional political and economic histories of southern agriculture."--Jacket.